Christmas Cake Shopping

Grandma made the best Christmas cake ever! She said that the perfect Christmas Cake shopping had to have more raisins and dried fruits than flour,

it should be made in mid October and should be stored in a cool dry place and should be regularly “fed” with wine , rum, brandy or whiskey of your choice and then iced with a rich royal icing, the night before Christmas!

Do you know that the Christmas cake shopping, an English tradition, actually begun as a plum porridge that people ate on Christmas Eve!

Very soon, they started adding dried fruit and spices to it and it became the Christmas pudding and then the rich traders removed oatmeal from the recipe and added butter, flour and eggs and so were born the modern Christmas cake shopping.

Putting together all the myriad ingredients and spending hours and days on baking and “feeding” the Christmas cake shopping sounds like too much of time in an already packed schedule,

but the heart is not ready to give up on that rich tradition reminiscent of all your childhood Christmases? Don’t fret, you don’t have to!

Today, you can walk into any of the speciality baking establishments or the studios of the “Christmas Cake shopping” artists and get the perfect Christmas cake shopping to suit your needs.

Today you have a wide choice. You can choose the classic fruitcake; it can be organic, or spongy or heavy or light or dark and moist. You can choose cakes from across the world, the Scottish Whiskey Dundee, the Apple Crème, or a Mincemeat cake.

Go far eastern with a Japanese style Christmas cake shopping, which is a frosted sponge cake with fruits or chocolates or try the Philippines version of a heavy yellow pound cake with nuts.

Your cake can now be vegetarian, sugar free and yes, for you teetotallers, there is even a cake available without any alcohol content!

You can now choose the shape you wish the cake to be in and the kind of icing you want on it! Your can be packaged the way you want, in a plain cardboard box or in a sleigh with Santa, the choice is yours!

Now, you don’t even need to go to the bakery to order the cake, just go online, either log on to your bakery’s webpage or Google for Christmas cake orders and viola! You have a long list of Christmas cake shopping artists in front of you!

Whether you are making a Christmas cake shopping from scratch or buying it from your favourite confectioner, always remember that the perfect Christmas cake shopping is a labour of time and love and you should give yourself or the person making the cake, enough notice.

The best course of action that you can take is to decide by the mid of August and order your cake then, so that the baker can give you not only many choices but also the best rates!

What are you waiting for, order that perfect Christmas cake shopping now and be prepared to have an amazing Christmas!